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Melrose High School Library Research Sites


Database Searching

Databases are provided by Massachusetts Library System, Mass. Board of Library Comissioners and City of Melrose School District.

Gale Databases

Info Trac Portal

All State databases can be found under Infotrac Database

http://libraries.state.ma.us/login?db=gale&locid=mlin_n_melrosehs

General

Encyclopedia Britannica

Username:

Password:

Encyclopedia Britannica is a multi-media electronic full-text encyclopedia with text, images, video and audion clips.

At Home: school.eb.com

You will need a user name and password (passwords are available for students and staff only
-please ask in the library.)

eLibrary eLibrary is a general database with access to books, magazines and newspapers.  Includes maps, transcripts and pictures.

At home: mblc.state.ma.us/cgi-bin/remote.pl?db=el  Put in your 14-digit public library patron barcode (no spaces)

Infotrac Infotrac is a group of general databases that include full-text articles and abstracts from magazines, newspapers, journals and reference sources.  Subjects include: Arts & Humanities, Business, History, Science and Social Sciences.

http://libraries.state.ma.us/login?db=gale&locid=mlin_n_melrosehs 

History

ABC-Clio

Username:

 

Password:

Six history databases are available for research in addition to the History Reference Center Online.

American History, American Government, Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society, United States at War, World History: Modern Era,and World Georgraphy

At home:  (unified log-in) www.socialstudies.abc-clio.com

You will need a user name and password (passwords are available for students and staff only-please ask in the library).

Literature
Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select Contemporary Literary Criticism-Select contains over 11,000 articles on 20th and 21st century authors including critical  and biographical essays. (Infotrac)

http://libraries.state.ma.us/login?db=CLC&locid=mlin_n_melrosehs

Literature Resources from Gale

Literature Resource Center is the world's most current, comprehensive, and reliable online literature database. Uniquely relevant to today's curriculum, Literature Resource Center's rich critical, biographical and contextual materials support interdisciplinary approaches, information literacy, and the development of critical thinking skills. Researchers at all levels will find the information they need on authors and their works in all genres and disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

http://libraries.state.ma.us/login?db=LitRC-16&locid=mlin_n_melrosehs

Newspapers
New York Times The New York Times has full-text articles since 1995. (Infotrac)

http://libraries.state.ma.us/login?db=SP24&locid=mlin_n_melrosehs

Proquest Newspapers Proquest Newspapers is a database of nine Massachusetts newspapers with most full-text starting in the 1980s.

http://libraries.state.ma.us/login?db=Proquest_Newsstand&locid=mlin_n_melrosehs


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